PART II. 



MANAGEMENT OF THE FLO WER GARDEN, AND CULTURE 

 OF PLANTS WITH DESCRIPTIVE LISTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



On the Culture of Annuals and Biennials. 



ABT. 1. Annual Flowers. 



ANNUAL plants are those of one year's duration only, and 

 are renewed yearly by sowing the seed, as the Lady's slip- 

 per or Balsam, the China aster, Mignonette, and the like. 



Annual flowers do not, in many cases, receive that atten- 

 tion they really merit, which, I imagine, is chiefly owing to 

 the trouble of renewing them yearly from seed, and the 

 proneness of most kinds to depreciate into single flowers and 

 inferior qualities ; however, the easy and speedy manner of 

 growing them, and the pretty effect they give to the flower 

 borders, when mixed with other plants, claim for them a place 

 in the flower garden. Their qualities, like all other flowers 

 and plants, can be retained, and, in many cases, even im- 

 proved by attentive management. I shall therefore proceed 

 to their culture, and add a Descriptive List of the best and 

 most appropriate kinds for the flower garden. 



ART. 2. Growing Annuals in Hot Beds, for Planting out early. 

 To have annuals flower early, the seed should be sown on 

 a moderate hot-bed early in the spring, for the purpose of 

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